Thomas Swan wrote:
> Would there be any interest in modifying postmaster to support native
> file logging in addition to stderr and stdout output? Are there any
> terrible drawbacks that you could foresee?
We have about 8 years of mailing list archives describing them.
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> Thomas Swan wrote:
>> Is there a reason the postmasters cannot just close/reopen-recreate
>> the log file when a SIGHUP or other signal is issued like apache?
>
> Yes, because there is no "log file". The postmaster writes to stdout or
> stderr.
>
>
Ok, my misunderstanding. stdout/stderr are r
Thomas Swan wrote:
> Is there a reason the postmasters cannot just close/reopen-recreate
> the log file when a SIGHUP or other signal is issued like apache?
Yes, because there is no "log file". The postmaster writes to stdout or
stderr.
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On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:33:42 -0500,
Thomas Swan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Is there a reason the postmasters cannot just close/reopen-recreate the
> log file when a SIGHUP or other signal is issued like apache? This would
> allow for almost any scheme for log rotation to be handled by t
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andrew Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>I've attached a patch for pg_ctl which integrates the Apache project's
rotatelogs for logging.
>> Why bother? You just pipe pg_ctl's output to rotatelogs and you're done.
>
> It's not difficult to do, once you know how and once yo
Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I've attached a patch for pg_ctl which integrates the Apache project's
rotatelogs for logging.
Why bother? You just pipe pg_ctl's output to rotatelogs and you're
done.
It's not difficult to do, once you know how and once you know that th
Andrew Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've attached a patch for pg_ctl which integrates the Apache project's
> rotatelogs for logging.
Why bother? You just pipe pg_ctl's output to rotatelogs and you're
done.
regards, tom lane
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I've attached a patch for pg_ctl which integrates the Apache project's
rotatelogs for logging. Is there any interested in the community for
such a thing? I have not yet added the appropriate stuff to autoconf to
completely integrate this.
I would appreciate any suggestions for improvement.
Dre
